# Kaun: Meal Planner — Recipes & Grocery List

> Recipes & Grocery List (iPhone/iPad app by Hans Wilhelm Salangsang.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaun-meal-planner/id6764854943 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Hans Wilhelm Salangsang](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895937725)
- Category: Food & Drink, Productivity
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.2 · 99 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-03
- Data updated: 2026-08-21
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/kaun-meal-planner/id6764854943/reviews.md

## What is Kaun?

Make Everyday Meals Easier

Kaun is a meal planner, food planner, and recipe app that helps you decide what to eat, what to buy, and how to cook — all in one simple tool.

Plan meals, build grocery lists, and discover Filipino recipes and everyday ulam ideas with ease.

Plan Your Meals

• Organize your week with a flexible meal planner
• Auto-generate your weekly food plan with Auto Plan
• Add recipes to any day or meal time
• Save and reuse weekly meal templates
• Customize plans by cuisine, protein, diet, allergens, and cooking time

Discover & Create Recipes

• Browse hundreds of easy recipes and Filipino ulam ideas
• Create, edit, or remix your own recipes
• Smart ingredient scaling with automatic unit conversion
• Clean formatting with fractions for easy reading

Smart Grocery Lists

• Auto-generated from your meal plan
• Ingredients grouped by category
• Simple checklist while shopping

Guided Cooking

• Step-by-step cooking instructions
• Built-in timers per step
• Scaled ingredients sync automatically

Share with a Link

• Share recipes and grocery lists instantly
• Import shared content in seconds

Works Offline

• Plan and cook without internet
• Fast, local-first experience

Designed for Everyday Use

Simple, clean, and focused on helping you plan meals without stress.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.7.1 — 2026-08-17

This update makes browsing recipes and cooking with timers a little smoother:

Improvements

Updated photos on several Filipino recipes so dishes are easier to recognize while you browse and plan meals
Improved the Set Timer sheet so spinning hours, minutes, or seconds no longer closes the sheet, and you can adjust another wheel without waiting for the first to stop

Fixes

Fixed crashes and glitches that could interrupt recipes, meal planning, and cook timers
Fixed Time’s up so tapping the notification opens the step you were on, with the matching timer message

### 1.7.0 — 2026-08-16

This update makes Kaun feel snappier from the first tap, with new meal suggestions, a Template Builder shortcut, smoother meal planning, and quicker grocery lists:

New Features

Added a Suggest a meal button on empty slots in Day view
Added an auto-fill button in Template Builder to fill every meal slot in one tap, like Auto Plan Week

Improvements

Updated Meal Plan with skeleton loading instead of a spinner
Improved first app open, especially on slower phones
Improved Add Meal sheet: opening, closing, and picking a recipe all feel smoother
Improved switching between Day and Week views, changing days, and tapping days on the inline calendar
Improved opening a day from Week view so the meal plan no longer refreshes unnecessarily
Improved recipe details in Template Builder and on template detail
Improved the first add or edit after opening the app
Improved grocery list regenerate so it is fast again after meal plan changes

Fixes

Fixed Explore in Add Meal briefly showing "No recipes found" before recipes appear
Fixed an error that could appear when adding meals in airplane mode

### 1.6.0 — 2026-08-03

This update makes Help clearer, meal planning snappier, and Add Meal search easier to use:

New Features

Improved Help Center and Contact Support — Contact Support opens the website contact form, with clearer FAQ copy for bug reports and feature requests (including photo and video tips)

Improvements

Smoother Add Meal recipe search with infinite scroll for submitted recipes and an easier path back to the recipe hub
More stable recipe hub results when preferences change (less reshuffling)
Faster meal plan loading — recipe summaries for plan meals load in a batch, so weeks with many meals open and scroll with less lag
Clearer copy and apply-mode UI when applying a meal plan template
Improved Help Center paths from the mobile app
Cleaner Settings Help Center accordion (no extra divider under the last row)

Fixes

Fixed Add Meal recipe search suggestion dropdown closing (and dismissing the keyboard) while scrolling suggestions

### 1.5.0 — 2026-07-28

This update brings a bigger recipe library, smoother grocery tools, and polish that makes everyday meal planning feel faster:

New Features

Added hundreds of new recipes across cuisines—pre & post-workout meals, snacks, and midnight snacks
Introduced fresh-install onboarding that only appears once
Added Report an issue / Request a feature so you can send feedback from the app

Improvements

Faster grocery lists when you have 100+ items (opening and editing feel snappier)
Improved bottom sheets with suggestion dropdowns so the keyboard stays open while you scroll suggestions
Improved multistep forms so scroll position stays put as you move between steps

Fixes

Fixed Android recipe image display
Fixed recipe image sharing on iOS and Android

### 1.4.0 — 2026-06-06

This update brings powerful new planning tools, improvements, and fixes to make your meal experience smoother:

New Features

Added Templates screen (create, edit, delete meal templates)
Improved template preview screen with edit & delete actions
Added Share Meal Template feature
Introduced notifications & reminders per meal time (“Notify me” scheduling)
Added persistent timer support on notifications and lock screen

Improvements

Updated all icons to Lucide Icons
Improved meal planning workflow and template management

Fixes

Fixed favorite recipe bug where count becomes 0 but heart stays filled and recipe remains in Favorites
Fixed unit formatting issue: 1 1/8 kg (BBQ Ribs in 3 servings) display correction

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